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It's common now for parents to put their kids in Kindergarten at the age they used to start first grade. My kid just made the cutoff but my wife wants to hold him back and some of his friends parents with kids born in January or march are holding their kids back a year.

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Just keep in mind things can cut both ways. To this day I somewhat regret my parents doing this as throughout my entire K12 education I always ended up making friends that were a grade or two ahead since my classmates were much less mature. Which was ultimately frustrating. However, such experiences are certainly not the norm. In my case it had more to do with emotional and physical maturity than the academic.

I had the opposite problem - I was one of the youngest kids in my grade (turned 18 a few months after graduation), and while I never had any trouble relating on an emotional level, I was always much smaller than everyone else until my sophomore or junior year of HS.

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